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Sender ID: forgeabettertomorrow | (Darin Altway)
To: Everyone
Subject: Darin needs some added perspective for his studies
Warnings: He's stupid

[Darin pulls back from the camera sitting at a drafting table in his home. However, instead of blueprints and sketches and diagrams, things you'd normally see on his drafting table and workstation, there's...an awful lot of textbooks. Darin reaches up and pulls the small pair of reading glasses from his face and pinches the bridge of his nose. No, he's not wearing them for show, he actually does wear reading glasses when he needs them.]

Okay, this is going to sound really really weird coming from me but...I guess I could use some help.

Does anyone understand how like...government works? Like, at all? Because it seems like a whole bunch of rules and guidelines that should be common sense until they aren't and the more I read, the more I feel like I've either understood this my entire life or I'm going crazy.

Plus? I never went to school so...anyone up for a spirited debate? Something? Anything? If I spend anymore time reading I think I might eat the next book.

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I think that depends on the location of the government in question. Unless you are simply looking for perspective based on everyone else's experiences?

Yes! Perspective! That'll help!

So, what do you look for in a governing body?

A good question.

Many of us who live on the islands in my world don't hold a strict since of a governing body. More or less, each village governs itself with a mayor and such to help with guidelines, but most importantly many of us seek to simply uphold each other in times of need. Be it against a natural disaster or something more nefarious.

So, perhaps to that I would say: I would seek a sense of flexibility, a respect of identity, and encouragement of community so we may cooperate together for a brighter future.

I think it would depend on what kind of government you're thinking about. I spent most of my years in a Grand Duchy, though I was born in the Northern Territories where my father was the chieftain. Two very different kind of governments and that is without considering the makeup of the Holy Empire of Sanbreque, the Dhalmekian Republic, and the Iron Kingdom.

[There's a hum as she considers a subject to debate on, but then she chooses to mention something that most likely isn't going to start much of a discussion.]

I wasn't aware you wore spectacles.

[ Ah, you've triggered his TRAP CARD. ]

Oh, my boy, I regret to inform you that government is much more than upholding a series of laws.

Huh...so you're kinda left to your own devices...?

I'm pretty sure there are places like that where I come from but...I'm starting to realize I'm not nearly as worldly as I thought...

[Darin blinks, then laughs.]

Oh...these? [He pulls a pair of small, square reading glasses off of his face. Honestly, he looks good in them.]

I use them mostly when my eyes get tired. I don't need them but...it helps when I've been staring at one thing for hours.

'Chieftain?' So...You're kinda like a princess? I can kinda see it. [He gives her a friendly, teasing smile.]

Though...honestly, your world sounds similar to mine. But I really only know about how Alvale, my home country, was run. We were a traditional monarchy with an inner court and dukes controlling territory and the like. We make up probably about 35 percent of the continent.

Well I know that. There's all sorts of systems in place. I've just never...familiarized myself with them? I've never cared to before now.

[Jill would agree if asked: they give him a rather striking look.]

Then it would appear you do need them at the moment and for longer, if you don't take a break.

[Though his smile is teasing, Jill purses her lips at the thought of being royalty. Technically, she could be considered a noble at the very least, but a princess? ~~No, that's Zelda.~~ After how she's been treated as a pawn of war and then a weapon of mass destruction, a princess is the farthest thing Jill would consider herself.]

Not really. I was just his daughter, that's all. It didn't matter that who my father was in the end.

Thirty-five is quite a bit of control. I take it that it didn't come so peacefully?

Honestly? I've never really read about how the borders and countries themselves were formed. I know that tensions are high along the borders. Alvale's biggest claim to fame is the magical lineage and scholarly pursuits which...well, the result is that it churns out more skilled and more powerful mages.

The neighboring countries aren't fans. Océl in the North has been ramping up on their engineering developments. Supposedly they've managed to create some kind of airship...

[He waves it off.]

There's peace but...there's always tensions. Especially given the rise of Alvale's Church and the prophesy that...I'm kinda instrumental in.

I guess I just never thought about the broader ramifications of governing people the way the royal family does.

[ Imagine the devil taking out a pencil and notepad-- ]

Well, to start: what form of leadership are you interested in? Democracy? Autocracy? Theocracy? Or mayhap even tyranny?

Next, what economic values do you wish to govern over? This will set the tone for the sorts of people you wish to welcome. You could have a communal state, a capitalist state, or something simpler such as a barter system with no currency whatsoever.

Now there is the judicial system! Outside of the traditional courts, mayhap you'd like a loose and lawless empire based upon strength of arms - but I must add that even the Corsairs adhere to their own set of rules. People cannot function as a society without some guidelines after all. There is plenty of flexibility in this area.

[ Emet-Selch seems to be in his element, gesturing animatedly. ]

W-Whoa whoa whoa! I...I-I mean, I'm not interested in taking any leadership specifically! I'm just...I'm learning!

But I'm not interested in tyranny, that's for sure...!

[He sighs, feeling color rush to his cheeks. He removes his glasses and pinches the bridge of his nose.]

Maybe...what if I talked about my kingdome? Alvale? I can tell you what things are like there. I wouldn't mind hearing another opinion.

Nice lenses. Trying to copy my look?

[#helpful]

Last time I checked if I wanted to copy you I'd shove the right side of my face in the forge.

You never know. Zelda might prefer a man with facial scars. I'm told they're popular like that.

Pretty sure Zelda doesnt want to see me with any more scars at all.

Hey remember that talk we had about the council or whatever that was made up of humans being jackasses because you had the audacity to be born something else?

How did that all work out

Mm, you're right. You'd probably somehow attract a krogan woman. The Council? You mean the Citadel Council? Where humans joined up recently?

[ He smirks a little as he lowers his hands and folds them neatly on his knee. ]

By all means do. I will see what insight I can offer.

If only Mycroft was still here, you would get a dozen lectures in the span of an hour about Queen and country.

[ No, Sherlock, that was special treatment for you from the Queen's Best Boy. ]

Well...geez, where to start. Alvale's a monarchy. King and Queen, Inner Court, Noble Houses and Duchies and whatnot. But it prided itself on was the strength and advancement of its magical studies. Entire universities and campuses were dedicated to furthering the pursuit of magical studies.

...Actually...

[Darin grabs his notebook and begins to scribble. Once done, he turns the notebook towards the screen and shows what looks like a pyramid.]

See, we have a class system. It used to be based more on social castes but as I understand it...things have been shifting politically for awhile. Nobles aren't too thrilled about a meritocracy so they're consolidating power.

[He gestures to the top.]

At the top we've got the royal family. Below them? Inner court and then the general aristocracy and nobles. These guys are basically the top of everything which...I guess could be broken down into three branches. Military, Scholarly, and Economically. There's paths up in each branch depending on...well, your ability. The scholars and the mages get the most clout and pull given Alvale's leaning towards magical research and study. Followed by that, you've got the military. Rack up enough achievements and you'll do well. Maybe marry into a noble family if you're lucky.

The tradesmen and the business owners are all about wealth and trade. Lots of ways to make it to the top depending on...well, how strong your work ethic or how silvery your tongue can be.

Yeah that thing

Sounds like humans were throwing their weight around. Howd it work before humans came and started being asses?

Mycroft?

A dozen in an hour? Good thing Im fast at taking notes.

Did he hate the royals or something?

[ While he can guess that things work differently on other worlds, Hythlodaeus has experience with only one system of government (and bullying its members). ]

Fourteen people, experts in their respective fields, are chosen to oversee and guide all matters within those fields. Most of them act as heads of large institutions, encompassing many people who dedicate their lives to the pursuits of said institution. That is about it, I believe?

[Oh this is a new face he doesn't recognize.]

Just fourteen? Doesn't that seem kinda...small? What if someone acts in their own interest? Do the other thirteen step in?

I wouldn't say they were being asses... One of them accomplished something pretty damn significant for it to happen. There were three Councilors - asari, salarian, turian. The major powers in Citadel Space. They made the decisions for the majority, appointed Spectres, that kind of thing. But every species had some kind of autonomy in their borders. Didn't always work out that well... Slavery, for example. It's outlawed everywhere outside batarian space, but because it's "their culture", inside their borders, it's still going strong.

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